Alex Rampell
Alex Rampell is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm's Apps practice and focuses on investments in financial services and fintech. He is best known as the co-founder and former CEO of TrialPay, a transactional advertising and payments company acquired by Visa in 2015, and as a co-founder of Affirm alongside Max Levchin. Prior to joining a16z in 2015, he also co-founded several other companies including FraudEliminator, Point, TXN, and Yub.
“I get pinged by Ben Horowitz... 'It changed my life. It's so great.'”
Source→“it turns out, if you could actually produce it via silicon, the market's quite large.”
Source→“The covenant is like, I, Yahoo!, give you, Alex, free stock quote if you give me your eyeball.”
Source→“We worked together when you were the CTO of Plaid, and I had led our investment in Plaid here.”
Source→“OpenAI had like 50 bets, and then Anthropic went all in on code, and that did really, really well.”
Source→“20 million people use this website... it's an affiliate website, and this has been around for 18 years.”
Source→“Steve Ballmer's like, 'Nobody's going to buy an $800 phone.'”
Source→“Cisco and Akamai were infrastructure companies in the '90s, and then Amazon and eBay were application companies.”
Source→“It's a fight between distribution and innovation, which to take my partner Alex Rampel's phrase.”
Source→“for most of these record companies, you end up getting most of your revenue scale from actually the 50 miles out of here and more”
Source→“Participants: Alex Rampell, Joe Schmidt, Keith Peiris”
Source→“Sugar CRM as the free CRM he used at an earlier startup to avoid paying $85/month for Salesforce”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.